Altared Lives Radio But now it's more politically orientated insomuch as CND and it's the same sort of concept and ideals sort of filtered through the years. This has not only been a nation of money-makers and imperialists, it's been a nation of inventors, of writers, a nation of theatre and musicians - an alternative nation and it is this alternative nation which I can see in front of me now. Altared Lives Radio Musics were reflecting and questioning Thatcher's new Online Radio. Unemployment had reached record levels and anxiety reigned. People were just leaving the cities in droves - young people with no hope of a job or anything. Three guys would chuck quid in a buy an old coach from the back of a coach company, one of their old ones they'd retired - throw a few mattresses in and head off. And so, what happened was that movement grew and grew and grew. And, suddenly, instead of just the slightly better off hippies making their arts fair up in Norfolk - like the Albion fair and so forth - you drove a whole load of quite hard core working class people from up north, onto the road. In , I think there were six vehicles at Stonehenge, you know, and by , there were thousands of people hitting the road. Altared Lives Radio More and more people appeared on the Music scenes, drinking. The whole punk attitude. internet radio everything, kind of thing, was quite prevalent amongst a growing group of younger disenfranchised people, who had just given up on living in cities. - We're just trying to live our lives, that's all. - Yeah, we don't interfere with anyone else. This world's supposed to be a common treasury for everybody to share - not people to button up. Do you know what I mean? No wonder people are starting to get sick. These people are pushing our people too close. And like, it's going to start to explode one of these days. This whole thing is just a total farce. Cities are going crazy, everybody's going crazy. It's all because of this - they're trying to impose a police state. A lot of people won't get no supper tonight A lot of people won't get no justice tonight I used to live in a squat and I always thought it would be great if I could save up enough to - get hold of something I could own myself and drive about in it and call it my own home. - Call it home. There was a definite kind of tribalism going on. The whole New Age travellers and New Age gypsies and the convoy. There were lots of different little cults of people. A lot of them were social casualties really. A lot of them were drug casualties. They were living outside the law really. They weren't completely independent of the system. A lot of them were on the dole. So, the authorities saw this movement as rather a threat. The original hippy idealists were being joined on the road by a new generation of post punk urban squatters. This collective would become known as the Peace Convoy. And as they arrived at Stonehenge Music in , Altared Lives Radio it seemed peace and love had now fully surrendered to anger and resentment. See these teeth! Put them in now, go on! Kick them in now, man! There were in excess of , people at Stonehenge. As with any town that size, you're bound to have a few mischievous elements, shall we say? Bikers started just mercilessly beating up any punks they could get their hands on.